As I wrote recently after Mattel announced it was teaming up with ToyTalk to introduce a nearly all-knowing and fully-throated Barbie, the talking-toy trend continues unabated, with more and more ...

Mattel’s Hello Barbie line is the company’s techiest endeavor. So far, the product suite consists of Hello Barbie herself, the smart Hello Barbie Dreamhouse, and now, Hello Barbie Hologram. Hello ...

The Wi-Fi connected talking Hello Barbie looks (and sounds) like a big step into the future for the classic doll. 8,000 lines of dialogue. Wide breadth of conversation subjects. Solid security ...

Hello Barbie, Mattel’s newest creation, has critics worried that the interactive doll will be able to spy on their owners. Hello Barbie has yet to hit the shelves, but critics have already started a ...

Move over Jem! After being a gamer developer and an astronaut, Barbie is getting her own hologram. One part personal assistant, one part toy and two parts fun, Hello Barbie Hologram is is designed to ...

A high-tech Barbie is terrible at keeping secrets. Toymaker Mattell is finding this out the hard way after a security firm revealed that Hello Barbie, a version of the beloved doll that comes with ...

info.....this all sounds so far out! True? Origins: On 14 February 2015, Mattel introduced a new Barbie model at the New York Toy Fair. In initial media reports ...

If you don’t know by now, companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and countless others use your data to target advertising to you. This is pretty common practice: your webmail has tracking cookies, ...

Barbie is about to talk back. She has talked before, with a pull-string in her back, so she could utter a phrase or two, like, "Let's have a pizza party!" But Mattel is about to roll out Hello Barbie, ...

A new Barbie Doll is getting a thumbs down. "Hello Barbie" uses WiFi speech recognition and is embedded with a microphone to record children's speech. Mattel says that technology allows the doll to ...

When I was growing up, Barbie was the first doll you didn’t have to mother. Instead of a needy infant, Barbie was a career woman. She could be an astronaut, a veterinarian, a movie star or anything ...